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State University of New York Press Inquiring into Being
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Academic Studies Press The Author as Hero: Self and Tradition in
Book SynopsisAn original reading of three famous novels reveals a significant shift in the Russian tradition of psychological prose; Justin Weir develops a persuasive analysis of the complex relationship between authorial self-reflection and literary tradition in three of the most famous Russian novels of the first half of the twentieth century: Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita, Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago, and Vladimir Nabokov’s The Gift. All three novelists respond to a dual crisis, according to Weir: the general modernist destabilization of identity, and the estrangement from literary tradition that followed the Russian Revolution. Using various self-reflexive literary devices (such as the mise en abyme), these authors reincorporate literary tradition into their works and, in the process, generate a distinctive view of identity. Character, in these novels, is neither the outcome of a continuous process of Building, nor a direct function of the individual’s relation to larger historical events. Rather, character is defined in the act of writing itself, so that every hero must be a sort of author. The outcome is a new novelistic art that focuses on the identity of the artist as revealed through his writing. With its innovative interpretation of these novels and its compelling historical, cultural, and theoretical insights, The Author as Hero offers a new view of an important moment in the evolution of Russian literature.
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Academic Studies Press World Literature in the Soviet Union
Book SynopsisThis is the first volume to consistently examine Soviet engagement with world literature from multiple institutional and disciplinary perspectives: intellectual history, literary history and theory, comparative literature, translation studies, diaspora studies. Its emphasis is on the lessons one could learn from the Soviet attention to world literature; as such, the present volume makes a significant contribution to current debates on world literature beyond the field of Slavic and East European Studies and foregrounds the need to think of world literature pluralistically, in a manner that is not restricted by the agendas of Anglophone academe.Trade Review"World Literature in the Soviet Union demonstrates persuasively that World Literature can be productively conceptualised and analysed as a set of discrete grand projects, each with its own historically and culturally specific institutional and ideological underpinnings. The volume explores in both breadth and depth how Soviet projects of World Literature developed in tandem with the evolution of the Soviet Union’s more general politico-cultural positioning in the world. It at the same time provides important insights into the role that the idea of World Literature played in Soviet constructions of both internationalism and multiculturalism."— Professor Andy Byford, Durham UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionGalin Tihanov, Rossen Djagalov, Anne Lounsbery 1. World Literature in the Soviet Union: Infrastructure and Ideological HorizonsGalin Tihanov 2. On the Worldliness of Russian LiteratureAnne Lounsbery 3. Armenian Literature as World Literature: Phases of Shaping it in the Pre-Soviet and Stalinist ContextsSusanne Frank 4. The Roles of "Form" and "Content" in World Literature as Discussed by Viktor Shklovsky in His Writings of the Immediately Post-Revolutionary Years Katerina Clark 5. “The Treasure Trove of World Literature”: Shaping the Concept of World Literature in Post-Revolutionary Russia Maria Khotimsky 6. The Birth of New out of Old: Translation in Early Soviet HistorySergey Tyulenev 7. International Literature: A Multi-Language Soviet Journal as a Model of “World Literature” of the Mid-1930s USSR Elena Ostrovskaya, Elena Zemskova, Evgeniia Belskaia, Georgii Korotkov 8. Translating China into International Literature: Stalin-Era World Literature Beyond the WestEdward Tyerman 9. World Literature and Ideology: The Case of Socialist RealismSchamma Schahadat 10. Premature Postcolonialists: The Afro-Asian Writers’ Association (1958–1991) and Its Literary Field Rossen Djagalov 11. Can “Worldliness” Be Inscribed into the Literary Text?: Russian Diasporic Writing in the Context of World Literature Maria Rubins ContributorsIndex
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Haymarket Books Crisis and Criticism
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